Stephen Baker is author of five books, including The Numerati, Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything, and a dystopian novel, The Boost. For 10 years, he was a senior technology writer for BusinessWeek, in Paris and New York. Before that, he worked as a journalist in Pittsburgh, Mexico City, Caracas, Madrid, Buenos Aires, and El Paso, Texas. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.